Re: RE: RE: On Leontiev

From: Phillip White (Phillip_White@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 06:01:39 PDT


xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>But isn't this sort of like saying the logic is in the egg when we make an
>omelette.

        no, i certainly hope it isn't -

> Of course we can't make an omelette without an egg, but that does
>not really take us anywhere, does it?

        actually, yes - because the egg is part of the constraints of the
activity - just as the structure of the eye is part of the constrait of
sight - along with cultural notions of color and meanings of black /
white / red / yellow - etc.
        
> I am with
 
>Marx I guess omelettes arize from labor not eggs.

        the labor of making omelettes is in part constrained by the physical
constraints of the egg, as well as the constraints of the cook as well as
the tools available to the cook - they are inseparable - no matter how
greatly you labor your can't make an omlette on a flat rock out of corn
meal.

phillip
          / \ / \ / \
 / \ / \

 Buddha speaking to Vasettha:
          One is not a brahmin by birth,
          Nor by birth a non-brahmin.
          By action is one a brahmin,
          by action is one a non-brahmin.
                                So that is how the truly wise
                                See action as it really is,
                                Seers of dependent origination,
                                Skilled in actions and its results.
                                                  Action makes the world
go round,
                                                  Action makes this
generation turn.
                                                  Living beings are bound
by action
                                                  Like the chariot wheel
by the pin.

phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu



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